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Dengue fever: Introduction
Dengue fever: Dengue fever is an infectious disease carried by mosquitoes and caused by any of four related dengue viruses. This disease used to be ... more about Dengue fever.
Dengue fever: An acute viral disease characterized by fever, rash and myalgia and caused by a flavivirus which is transmitted by mosquitoes. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Dengue fever is available below.
Symptoms of Dengue fever
- High fever - up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit
- Severe headache
- Retro-orbital pain - pain behind the eye
- Severe joint pains
- Muscle pains
- more symptoms...»
See full list of 21 symptoms of Dengue fever
Home Diagnostic Testing
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Dengue fever: Complications
Review possible medical complications related to Dengue fever:
- Fatigue
- Tiredness
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever - this can cause several serious complications:
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Medical Textbooks Online about Dengue fever
- "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
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- "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
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- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors" (2008)
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- "Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors" (2008)
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Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Diagnostic Tests for Dengue fever
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- Dengue virus lood test
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Dengue fever?
- Misdiagnosis of Dengue fever
- Failure to diagnose Dengue fever
- Hidden causes of Dengue fever (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
- Undiagnosed: Dengue fever
Dengue fever: Medical Mistakes
Misdiagnosis and Dengue fever
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Causes of Dengue fever
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Treatments for Dengue fever
- Symptomatic and supportive
- Bed rest
- Fluids
- Fever medications - though aspirin is not advisable according to some sources
- Aspirin - some sources recommend aspirin (ask your doctor for current advice)
- more treatments...»
See full list of 10 treatments for Dengue fever
Latest Treatments for Dengue fever
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News Archives for Dengue fever
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Source: HealthDay News
Evidence Based Medicine Research for Dengue fever
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Prognosis for Dengue fever
Prognosis for Dengue fever: Most people who develop dengue fever recover completely within two weeks. Some, however, may go through several weeks of feeling tired and/or depressed. (Source: excerpt from Dengue Fever: NIAID)
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Reseach about Dengue fever
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Clinical Trials for Dengue fever
The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Dengue fever include:
- Safety of and Immune Response to a Dengue Virus Vaccine (rDEN4delta30-4995) in Healthy Adults - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- Safety of and Immune Response to a Dengue Virus Vaccine (rDEN3/4delta30[ME]) in Healthy Adults - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- Safety of and Immune Response to a Dengue Virus Vaccine (rDEN1delta30) in Healthy Adults - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- Safety of and Immune Response to a Dengue Virus Vaccine (rDEN2/4delta30[ME]) in Healthy Adults - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- Safety of and Immune Response to a Dengue Virus Vaccine (rDEN4delta30-200,201) in Healthy Adults - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- more trials...»
See full list of 15 Clinical Trials for Dengue fever
Prevention of Dengue fever
Prevention information for Dengue fever has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Dengue fever.
- Avoid mosquito bites
- Mosquito repellant
- Protective clothing
- Window screens
- Remove water-filled mosquito breeding areas
- more preventions...»
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Statistics for Dengue fever
- Medical statistics for Dengue fever
- Prevalence and incidence statistics for Dengue fever
- Death and Mortality statistics for Dengue fever
- Society statistics for Dengue fever
Dengue fever: Broader Related Topics
Types of Dengue fever
- DEN-1
- DEN-2
- DEN-3
- DEN-4
- Dengue hemorrhagic fever
- more types...»
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Article Excerpts about Dengue fever
Dengue Fever: NIAID (Excerpt)
Dengue fever is an infectious disease carried by mosquitoes and caused by any of four related dengue viruses. This disease used to be called break-bone fever because it sometimes causes severe joint and muscle pain. Health experts have known about dengue fever for more than 200 years. (Source: excerpt from Dengue Fever: NIAID)
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: Questions and Answers: DVBID (Excerpt)
Dengue (pronounced den' gee) is a disease caused by any one of four closely related viruses (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, or DEN-4). The viruses are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. In the Western Hemisphere, the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the most important transmitter or vector of dengue viruses, although a 2001 outbreak in Hawaii was transmitted by Aedes albopictus. It is estimated that there are over 100 million cases of dengue worldwide each year. (Source: excerpt from Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: Questions and Answers: DVBID)
Definitions of Dengue fever:
Acute infectious, eruptive, febrile disease caused by four antigenically related but distinct serotypes of the dengue virus; transmitted by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes, especially A. aegypti; classical dengue (dengue fever) is self-limiting and characterized by fever, myalgia, headache, and rash; dengue hemorrhagic fever is a more virulent form of dengue virus infection. - (Source - Diseases Database)
An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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- PURPURA AND ABNORMAL BLEEDING (Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs)
- FEVER, ACUTE (Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs)
- FEVER, CHRONIC (Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs)
- Fever (In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)
- Purpura (In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)
- Rash with Fever (In a Page: Signs and Symptoms)
- Purpura (In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Fever – Cyclic (In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Fever – Recurrent (In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Fever – Unknown Origin (In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- Fever – Acute (In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms)
- FEVER (Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care)
- HYPOTENSION AND SHOCK (Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care)
- Fever (Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition))
- Purpura (Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition))
- Fever of Unknown Origin in the United States* (A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis)
- Infection and Fever (Complications of HIV) (A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis)
- Petechiae and Purpura (A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis)
- Hypotension and Shock (A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis)
- Allergic purpuras (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Colorado tick fever (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Lassa fever (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Relapsing fever (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Toxic shock syndrome (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Hypovolemic shock (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Cardiogenic shock (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Electric shock (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Septic shock (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- GI hemorrhage (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Purpura (Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
- Fever [Pyrexia] (Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition))
- Fever (The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter)
- Rash Accompanied by Fever (The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter)
- Petechiae and Purpura (The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter)
- Purpura/Petechiae/Excessive Bleeding (Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis)
- Fever of Unknown Origin (Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis)
- Shock (Field Guide to Bedside Diagnosis)
- Allergic purpura (Handbook of Diseases)
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (Handbook of Diseases)
- Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (Handbook of Diseases)
- Toxic shock syndrome (Handbook of Diseases)
- Hypovolemic shock (Handbook of Diseases)
- Cardiogenic shock (Handbook of Diseases)
- Electric shock (Handbook of Diseases)
- Fever (Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series)
- Fever (Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)
- Purpura (Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)
- Fever (The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)
- Purpura and Bleeding (The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)
- Purpura (Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)
- Fever [Pyrexia] (Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms)
- FEVER (Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care)
- HYPOTENSION AND SHOCK (Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care)
- Seizures - Case 19-1: 8-Day-Old Girl (Pediatric Complaints and Diagnostic Dilemmas)
- Seizures - Case 19-2: 10-Day-Old Boy (Pediatric Complaints and Diagnostic Dilemmas)
- Do not waste time trying to get anintravenous (IV) line on an infant in shock when an intraosseous (IO) line will do just as well (Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors)
- Intravenous (IV) fluid management isindicated as the first therapeutic intervention for all types of shock (Avoiding Common Pediatric Errors)
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